For nearly five years, we lived in Morven, until my Mother could 

 carry out her long-cherished plan of building a home of her own. We 

 had hardly been settled, when our dear friend, Dr. Guyot, died (Feb- 

 ruary i<S(S4). Not only did I feel very grateful to Dr. Guyot for his 

 unwearying kindness to me, but I had a strong personal affection for 

 him, to say nothing of my admiration of him as a great man of science. 

 His was a most lovable character and he had a sly sense of humour, 

 which his quaint English made the more delightful. He told us a story, 

 for example, of the days when he had been professor of history at 

 Neufchatel and was examining a student, orally, on the period of Louis 

 XIV; the candidate was very glib and discoursed so fluently of "le grand 

 monarque" that Dr. Guyot suspected him of mere cramming. "So I 

 did say to him, 'Stop a leetle, stop a leetle, was all zis before or after ze 

 Flood,' and he could not tell me." Wishing to evade the expression of 

 an opinion as to a certain book, he said: "I have no time, sometimes, to 

 read a great many things." 



As told in a previous chapter, I made an unsuccessful collecting trip 

 to the Big Horn Basin, in Wyoming, while my Wife spent the summer 

 with her mother and grandmother, partly in Connecticut, partly on 

 Cape Cod. When I returned home and found her awaiting me, I was 

 just in time to attend the meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in Philadelphia and the British Association, 

 which had been meeting in Montreal, came down and held joint ses- 

 sions with us, making the occasion a very memorable and delightful 

 one. As the weather was hot and Philadelphia very crowded, Osborn 

 and I came back to Princeton nearly every night. We had the pleasure 

 of meeting many of our English friends again and Osborn brought them 

 home with him in turn. Sir Oliver Lodge was disgusted with Philadel- 

 phia and declared that it wasn't half the place that Montreal was. 



At one of the meetings of the Zoological Section, great excitement 

 was aroused by a cable message from AustraUa, sent by Caldwell, Bal- 

 four student in Cambridge. This announced that the Duck-billed Mole 

 iOrnithorhynchus) was oviparous. That a true mammal, warm- 

 blooded, hair-covered and milk-giving, should reproduce by means of 

 eggs, in the ordinary sense of the word, was very wonderful. Caldwell's 

 observation turned out to be a rediscovery of what had originally been 

 reported by a French naturalist some forty years before. Little notice 

 had been taken of this startling discovery at the time and it had been 

 completely forgotten. The general acceptance of the theory of Evolution 



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